Word: reached
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fiendish design, the highest points on earth loom tantalizingly at the limits of mankind's physiological reach. Mountaineers and M.D.s agree that above 8,000 m (26,246 ft.), a physical curtain begins to fall. Higher than this, the air is so thin that ordinary people can live for only several hours -- if at all. Trapped in the so-called death zone, says one climber who is familiar with these altitudes, "you can't shout for help anymore. You lose your sense of logic. And you die in euphoria, overestimating your own strength...
...have arms control or we can have a crash program to deploy defense. We can't have both. The President has always said SDI is just a research program, and the Soviets say let's limit it to research. It shouldn't be beyond the ingenuity of man to reach some sort of accommodation between those two positions...
...Reykjavik summit, the Joint Chiefs of Staff were not asked to study the implications of the President's proposal for a total elimination within ten years of all ballistic missiles, let alone to consider the elimination of all strategic arms. I am relieved that the superpowers did not reach an agreement along these lines. I think we must act immediately to pull our zero-ballistic-missile proposal off the table before the Soviets accept it. A fundamental review of the Administration's position on these matters is imperative...
...President went more than halfway to meet the Soviets at Reykjavik. The U.S. was prepared to take substantial risks to reach an agreement -- and still the Soviets insisted on their terms. In the final analysis, the Soviets proved that they're not interested in fair and equitable reductions. They're interested only in killing SDI. But SDI is not a bargaining chip. It shouldn't be. I don't believe the Soviets are serious about reducing their nuclear arsenal. We ought to get as heavy a cut in offensive forces as possible. That doesn't preclude us from defending ourselves...
...Geldof, organizer of Live Aid and other fund-raising rock concerts, as runner- up for this year's peace prize.) Wiesel regards his award with an amalgam of gratitude and caution. "I don't think that prizes validate work," he says. "They give stature, texture, the possibility to reach more people. There's a mystique about the Nobel. It gives you a better loudspeaker...